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Heman Sweatt applies for University of Texas
Heman applies for entrance into the university but it did not accept black students. Instead of admitting him they created a seperate law school. -
Committee of Civil Rights is made
Truman creates this committee in response to protests to study racial descrimination and to suggest solutions to the problems. -
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The main events of the Civil Rights Movement -
Truman ends racial segregation in military
After two years without action on the topic Truman passes a law ending racial segregation in the military. -
Supreme Court Rules over Sweatt v. Painter Case
Sweatt wins because it is ruled that the new university did not provide equal academic prestige. They also ordered Sweatt be permited into the University of Texas. -
Brown V. Board of Education Case
Supreme Court rules that segregation in schools is illegal. -
Supreme Court makes its ruling stronger
The Supreme Court calls for an immediate desegregation of all public schools. -
Rosa Parks is arrested on bus
Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her seat for a white man. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Following the Rosa Parks arrest, African Americans boycotted the bus system and got transportation from volunteers. -
Supreme Court rules over Montgomery bus system
Court decides that the Mongomery bus system was illegal. -
School Board selects Little Rock 9 to attend Central High School
9 outstanding African American students were selected into this group to attend cental high school -
Daisy Bates meets mob in front of school
Daisy misses a bus arranged for her and a mob forms trying to prevent her from entering the high school -
Eisenhower Sends in troops to Arkansas
Eisenhower sends in troops to enforce desegregation at public schools in Arkansas. -
Ernest Green becomes first African American to Graduate Central High School
Ernest Greenway graduates from Central High School Arkansas after years of persecution.
